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- the present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, and in particular to an array substrate for an LCD device.
- LCD liquid crystal display
- LCD devices In new generation panel display technologies, LCD devices have the advantages of thin profile, light weight, and low power consumption and therefore are widely applied in electronic devices such as mobile phones and portable computers.
- LCDs have an upper and a lower substrate with electrodes thereon.
- TFTs are formed above the lower substrate as switching devices.
- Each TFT has a gate electrode connected to a scanning line, a drain electrode connected with a signal line, and a source electrode connected to a pixel electrode.
- the upper substrate includes a color filter layer, showing colors such as green, red or blue, and a black matrix layer.
- These substrates are sealed with adhesive materials, and a liquid crystal material is sealed between these two substrates. Before the liquid crystal is injected between the two substrates, spacers are sprayed between the substrates in order to maintain a constant distance therebetween.
- LC liquid crystal
- Array substrates for LCD devices are provided. LCD devices using the same and methods for assembling the same are also provided.
- An array substrate for an LCD device is provided with at least one spacer thereon. The spacer is located at a non-intersection point of conductive lines formed over the array substrate and substantially aligns to a black matrix layer over a color filter substrate of the LCD and is therefore limited by color filter layers adjacent thereto. Therefore, the spacer will not be revealed when misalignment occurs during the LCD device assembling and display performance of adjacent pixel units thereto are thus ensured.
- An exemplary embodiment of the array substrate comprises a transparent substrate.
- a plurality of first and second conductive lines overlies the transparent substrate and cross over each other, thereby defining a plurality of display regions.
- At least one first spacer overlies a portion of the first or second conductive lines, wherein the first spacer is not formed over a intersection portion of the first and second conductive lines.
- a pixel electrode layer overlies the display regions, wherein the first spacer partially covers the pixel electrode layer.
- An exemplary embodiment of an LCD device comprises an array substrate and a color filter substrate.
- a liquid crystal layer is filled between the array substrate and the color filter layer.
- the array substrate comprises a first transparent substrate.
- a plurality of first and second conductive lines overlies the first transparent substrate and crosses over each other, defining a plurality of display regions.
- At least one first spacer overlies a portion of the first or second conductive lines, wherein the at least one first spacer is not formed over an intersection of the first and second conductive lines.
- a pixel electrode layer overlies the display regions, the first spacer partially covers the pixel electrode layer.
- the color filter substrate comprises a second transparent substrate.
- a black matrix layer overlies the second transparent substrate, defining a plurality of light-transmitting regions.
- a color filter layer overlies the second transparent substrate within the light-transmitting regions and partially covers the black matrix layer to thereby form a recess portion, wherein the first spacer supports the recess portion to thereby align the display regions to the light-transmitting regions.
- An exemplary embodiment of a method for assembling an LCD device comprises providing the described array substrate and the color filter substrate.
- the first spacer over the array substrate aligns with the recess portion over the color filter substrate.
- the array substrate presses against the color filter substrate to make the first spacer support the recess portion and align the display regions with the light-transmitting regions.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram, showing a top view of a LCD device according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 is a cross section taken along line 2 - 2 of FIG. 1 , showing a partial cross-section of an LCD device according to an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-section taken along line 2 - 2 of FIG. 1 , showing a method for LCD device assembling according to an embodiment of the invention.
- An array substrate for LCD devices is now described in greater detail. Some embodiments described, can potentially prevent revealed spacers due to misalignment between array substrate and color filter substrates of the LCD device. In some embodiments, this can be accomplished by forming a spacer over the array substrate and a recess portion over the color filter substrate. During LCD device assembly, the spacer over the array substrate aligns with the recess portion over the color filter substrate. The array substrate presses against the color filter substrate to make the first spacer support the recess portion and align the display regions over the array substrate with the light-transmitting regions over the color filter substrate.
- FIGS. 1-3 are schematic diagrams of an exemplary embodiment of an LCD device 10 .
- a top view of the LCD device 10 is illustrated to partially show arrangements therein.
- the LCD device 10 includes a lower array substrate 12 and an upper color filter (CF) substrate 14 .
- a liquid crystal (LC) layer (not shown) is sandwiched between the array substrate 12 and the CF substrate 14 .
- the array substrate includes a transparent substrate 100 formed with a plurality of crossed gate lines 102 and data lines 104 thereon.
- gate lines 102 are illustrated as horizontally extending conductive lines, functioning as scan lines
- data lines 140 are illustrated as vertically extending lines, functioning as signal lines.
- These crossed gate lines 102 and data lines 104 define a plurality of display regions P over the transparent substrate 100 .
- the color filter substrate 14 includes a transparent substrate 200 formed with a black matrix layer 202 thereon.
- the black matrix layer 202 includes a plurality of first black matrix segments 202 a and second black matrix segments 202 b which cross each other, thereby defining a plurality of light-transmitting regions L over the transparent substrate 200 .
- the first black matrix segments 202 a are, for example, horizontally extended and the second black matrix segments 202 b are, for example, vertically extended, and overlie the transparent substrate 200 .
- color filter layers of different colors such as red CF layer 300 a , green CF layer 300 b or blue CF layer 300 c , are formed.
- Each of the light-transmitting regions L respectively oppose a display region P.
- a spacer 106 b is formed below one of the first black matrix segments 202 a
- another spacer 106 a is formed below one of the second black matrix segments 202 b
- the spacers 106 b , 106 a are preferably located at a non-intersection point of the first and second black matrix segments 202 a , 202 b , to thereby reduce misalignment between the array substrate 12 and the CF substrate 14 , thus enhanced process windows for the LCD device 10 are provided during assembly.
- the spacers 106 a , 106 b are respectively adjacent to two different light-transmitting regions L.
- the above spacers can be arranged as described in the following:
- a plurality of spacers 106 a or 106 b are provided below the black matrix segments adjacent to one light-transmitting region L, wherein the spacers substantially surround the light-transmitting region L;
- one or more spacers 106 a and 106 b are provided below a portion of one or more black matrix segments adjacent to one or more light-transmitting regions L.
- FIG. 2 a cross-section taken along line 2 - 2 of FIG. 1 is illustrated, showing a part of the LCD device 10 .
- the array substrate is provided with a transparent substrate 100 formed with a data line 104 thereon, separating two adjacent display regions P.
- a buffer layer 110 , an insulating layer covering the data line 104 and a pixel electrode layer 114 are formed over the transparent substrate 100 .
- a spacer is formed over the transparent substrate 100 , referring to spacer 106 a here, has a tapered shape but is not limited to the shape illustrated in FIG. 2 .
- the spacer 106 a has an upper width of about 5.0 ⁇ 15.0 ⁇ m.
- the spacer 106 a may comprise photosensitive materials such as polymer, resist material, resin and silicon compounds and can be formed by a process including photolithography and sequential development, without requiring additional etching steps. As shown in FIG. 2 , the spacer 106 a crosses over two adjacent display regions P and covers the insulating layer 112 and a part of the pixel electrode 114 . Herein, the size of pixel electrode layer 114 can be further reduced and the pixel electrode layer may be not covered by the spacer 106 a (not shown).
- the color filter substrate 14 includes a transparent substrate 200 formed with a black-matrix layer thereon, illustrating as the second black matrix segments 202 b separating two adjacent light-transmitting regions L here.
- a color filter layer is formed over the transparent substrate 200 and illustrated as the color filter layer 300 c or 300 a , partially covering the second black matrix segments 202 b .
- the second black matrix segment 202 b is formed with a thickness H 1 of about 0.5-1.5 ⁇ m
- the CF layers 300 c , 300 a are formed with a thickness H 2 of about 1.0-3.0 ⁇ m, having a gap H 3 of about 0.5-2.5 ⁇ m therebetween and forming a recess portion therebetween.
- the portion of the second black-matrix segment 202 b not covered by the CF layer 300 c and 300 a has a width W 1 of about 20-30 ⁇ m, defining a width of the recess portion.
- the recess portion of the CF layer 14 substantially aligns with the spacer 16 overlying the array substrate 12 and is supported thereby, a vacant space of less than 7 ⁇ m still exists between the first spacer 106 a and the recess portion, thereby providing a suitable process window for LCD device assembly.
- the spacer 106 a When misalignment occurs during LCD device assembly, the spacer 106 a is limited by the gap defined by the CF layers 300 a and 300 c over the CF layer 14 and the first black matrix segments 202 b , and the spacer 106 a will not be exposed through the light-transmitting region L and pixel performance of the adjacent display regions P are ensured.
- the distance between the CF substrate 14 and the array substrate 12 is defined by the thickness of the spacer 106 a and a liquid crystal layer LC is formed and sandwiched thereby, thus the LCD device 10 is formed.
- FIG. 3 a cross section taken along lines 2 - 2 of FIG. 1 is illustrated, showing a method for assembly the LCD device 10 .
- the above array substrate 12 is first-provided.
- the array substrate 12 is formed with the described elements thereon and a spacer.
- 106 a is formed over a conductive line, for example the data line 104 , between adjacent display regions P.
- the spacer 106 a is formed with, for example, a tapered shape as illustrated in FIG. 3 and is surrounded by a seal layer (not shown), defining an area for a plurality of display regions P.
- the liquid crystal layer LC is then formed in the display regions P by methods such as the one drop filling (ODF) method.
- a CF substrate for example the above mentioned CF substrate 14 , is provided over the array substrate 12 .
- the CF substrate 14 has a recess portion formed over a black matrix layer between adjacent light-transmitting regions L.
- the array substrate and the CF substrate 14 are pressed toward each other under a vacuum atmosphere to thereby assembly the LCD device 10 .
- a plurality of spacers 106 a and 106 b are formed along a part of a conductive line over the array substrate but not formed at an intersection of the conducive lines thereon, thereby providing alignment assistance along vertical and/or horizontal directions during LCD device assembly.
- the formed spacers substantially align to a recess portion formed over a CF substrate and are limited thereto during LCD device assembling, thereby avoiding reveals of the spacers into the light-transmitting regions.
- extra assembling process windows and reduced effect to the pixel units are provided.
- the amounts and arrangements of the spacers can be varied according practical LCD device design and is not limited to that illustrated in FIG. 1 .
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- The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, and in particular to an array substrate for an LCD device.
- In new generation panel display technologies, LCD devices have the advantages of thin profile, light weight, and low power consumption and therefore are widely applied in electronic devices such as mobile phones and portable computers.
- Generally, LCDs have an upper and a lower substrate with electrodes thereon. Conventionally, many TFTs are formed above the lower substrate as switching devices. Each TFT has a gate electrode connected to a scanning line, a drain electrode connected with a signal line, and a source electrode connected to a pixel electrode. The upper substrate includes a color filter layer, showing colors such as green, red or blue, and a black matrix layer. These substrates are sealed with adhesive materials, and a liquid crystal material is sealed between these two substrates. Before the liquid crystal is injected between the two substrates, spacers are sprayed between the substrates in order to maintain a constant distance therebetween.
- Normally, during LCD device assembly, these substrates are installed in parallel and a cavity is formed between these two precisely aligned substrates by forming adhesive materials therebetween. Next, a liquid crystal (LC) filling process, for example vacuum insertion, is performed on the cavity to thereby fill an LC material therebetween. The LC material flows between the spacers formed in the LCD device.
- During LCD device assembly, however, undesired misalignment between these substrates still occurs and some of the spacers which should be covered by the black matrix layer are somehow revealed, thus pixel performances of the LCD device suffers. Therefore, a need exists for a method of solving such spacer revealing issues due to substrate misalignment.
- Array substrates for LCD devices are provided. LCD devices using the same and methods for assembling the same are also provided. An array substrate for an LCD device is provided with at least one spacer thereon. The spacer is located at a non-intersection point of conductive lines formed over the array substrate and substantially aligns to a black matrix layer over a color filter substrate of the LCD and is therefore limited by color filter layers adjacent thereto. Therefore, the spacer will not be revealed when misalignment occurs during the LCD device assembling and display performance of adjacent pixel units thereto are thus ensured.
- An exemplary embodiment of the array substrate comprises a transparent substrate. A plurality of first and second conductive lines overlies the transparent substrate and cross over each other, thereby defining a plurality of display regions. At least one first spacer overlies a portion of the first or second conductive lines, wherein the first spacer is not formed over a intersection portion of the first and second conductive lines. A pixel electrode layer overlies the display regions, wherein the first spacer partially covers the pixel electrode layer.
- An exemplary embodiment of an LCD device comprises an array substrate and a color filter substrate. A liquid crystal layer is filled between the array substrate and the color filter layer. The array substrate comprises a first transparent substrate. A plurality of first and second conductive lines overlies the first transparent substrate and crosses over each other, defining a plurality of display regions. At least one first spacer overlies a portion of the first or second conductive lines, wherein the at least one first spacer is not formed over an intersection of the first and second conductive lines. A pixel electrode layer overlies the display regions, the first spacer partially covers the pixel electrode layer. The color filter substrate comprises a second transparent substrate. A black matrix layer overlies the second transparent substrate, defining a plurality of light-transmitting regions. A color filter layer overlies the second transparent substrate within the light-transmitting regions and partially covers the black matrix layer to thereby form a recess portion, wherein the first spacer supports the recess portion to thereby align the display regions to the light-transmitting regions.
- An exemplary embodiment of a method for assembling an LCD device comprises providing the described array substrate and the color filter substrate. The first spacer over the array substrate aligns with the recess portion over the color filter substrate. The array substrate presses against the color filter substrate to make the first spacer support the recess portion and align the display regions with the light-transmitting regions.
- The invention can be more fully understood by reading the subsequent detailed description and examples with reference made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram, showing a top view of a LCD device according to an embodiment of the invention; -
FIG. 2 is a cross section taken along line 2-2 ofFIG. 1 , showing a partial cross-section of an LCD device according to an embodiment of the invention; and -
FIG. 3 is a cross-section taken along line 2-2 ofFIG. 1 , showing a method for LCD device assembling according to an embodiment of the invention. - An array substrate for LCD devices is now described in greater detail. Some embodiments described, can potentially prevent revealed spacers due to misalignment between array substrate and color filter substrates of the LCD device. In some embodiments, this can be accomplished by forming a spacer over the array substrate and a recess portion over the color filter substrate. During LCD device assembly, the spacer over the array substrate aligns with the recess portion over the color filter substrate. The array substrate presses against the color filter substrate to make the first spacer support the recess portion and align the display regions over the array substrate with the light-transmitting regions over the color filter substrate.
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FIGS. 1-3 are schematic diagrams of an exemplary embodiment of anLCD device 10. InFIG. 1 , a top view of theLCD device 10 is illustrated to partially show arrangements therein. - As shown in
FIG. 1 , theLCD device 10 includes alower array substrate 12 and an upper color filter (CF)substrate 14. A liquid crystal (LC) layer (not shown) is sandwiched between thearray substrate 12 and theCF substrate 14. The array substrate includes atransparent substrate 100 formed with a plurality ofcrossed gate lines 102 anddata lines 104 thereon. Herein,gate lines 102 are illustrated as horizontally extending conductive lines, functioning as scan lines, and data lines 140 are illustrated as vertically extending lines, functioning as signal lines. Thesecrossed gate lines 102 anddata lines 104 define a plurality of display regions P over thetransparent substrate 100. - Moreover, still referring to
FIG. 1 , thecolor filter substrate 14 includes atransparent substrate 200 formed with ablack matrix layer 202 thereon. Theblack matrix layer 202 includes a plurality of firstblack matrix segments 202 a and secondblack matrix segments 202 b which cross each other, thereby defining a plurality of light-transmitting regions L over thetransparent substrate 200. Herein, the firstblack matrix segments 202 a are, for example, horizontally extended and the secondblack matrix segments 202 b are, for example, vertically extended, and overlie thetransparent substrate 200. Within each of the light-transmitting regions L, color filter layers of different colors, such asred CF layer 300 a,green CF layer 300 b orblue CF layer 300 c, are formed. Each of the light-transmitting regions L respectively oppose a display region P. - Still shown in
FIG. 1 , aspacer 106 b is formed below one of the firstblack matrix segments 202 a, and anotherspacer 106 a is formed below one of the secondblack matrix segments 202 b. Thespacers black matrix segments array substrate 12 and theCF substrate 14, thus enhanced process windows for theLCD device 10 are provided during assembly. Herein, thespacers LCD device 10, the above spacers can be arranged as described in the following: - (a) one or
more spacers - (b) a plurality of
spacers - (c) one or
more spacers - Those skilled in the art will understand that the arrangement of the
spacers FIG. 1 . Other arrangements are anticipated and fall within the scope of the invention. - Next, in
FIG. 2 , a cross-section taken along line 2-2 ofFIG. 1 is illustrated, showing a part of theLCD device 10. As shown inFIG. 2 , the array substrate is provided with atransparent substrate 100 formed with adata line 104 thereon, separating two adjacent display regions P. Abuffer layer 110, an insulating layer covering thedata line 104 and apixel electrode layer 114 are formed over thetransparent substrate 100. In addition, a spacer is formed over thetransparent substrate 100, referring to spacer 106 a here, has a tapered shape but is not limited to the shape illustrated inFIG. 2 . As shown inFIG. 2 , thespacer 106 a has an upper width of about 5.0˜15.0 μm. Thespacer 106 a may comprise photosensitive materials such as polymer, resist material, resin and silicon compounds and can be formed by a process including photolithography and sequential development, without requiring additional etching steps. As shown inFIG. 2 , thespacer 106 a crosses over two adjacent display regions P and covers the insulatinglayer 112 and a part of thepixel electrode 114. Herein, the size ofpixel electrode layer 114 can be further reduced and the pixel electrode layer may be not covered by thespacer 106 a (not shown). - Moreover, the
color filter substrate 14 includes atransparent substrate 200 formed with a black-matrix layer thereon, illustrating as the secondblack matrix segments 202 b separating two adjacent light-transmitting regions L here. Within each light-transmitting region L, a color filter layer is formed over thetransparent substrate 200 and illustrated as thecolor filter layer black matrix segments 202 b. The secondblack matrix segment 202 b is formed with a thickness H1 of about 0.5-1.5 μm, and the CF layers 300 c, 300 a are formed with a thickness H2 of about 1.0-3.0 μm, having a gap H3 of about 0.5-2.5 μm therebetween and forming a recess portion therebetween. Herein, the portion of the second black-matrix segment 202 b not covered by theCF layer LCD device 10, the recess portion of theCF layer 14 substantially aligns with the spacer 16 overlying thearray substrate 12 and is supported thereby, a vacant space of less than 7 μm still exists between thefirst spacer 106 a and the recess portion, thereby providing a suitable process window for LCD device assembly. When misalignment occurs during LCD device assembly, thespacer 106 a is limited by the gap defined by the CF layers 300 a and 300 c over theCF layer 14 and the firstblack matrix segments 202 b, and thespacer 106 a will not be exposed through the light-transmitting region L and pixel performance of the adjacent display regions P are ensured. - Moreover, the distance between the
CF substrate 14 and thearray substrate 12 is defined by the thickness of thespacer 106 a and a liquid crystal layer LC is formed and sandwiched thereby, thus theLCD device 10 is formed. - Next, in
FIG. 3 , a cross section taken along lines 2-2 ofFIG. 1 is illustrated, showing a method for assembly theLCD device 10. - As shown in
FIG. 3 , theabove array substrate 12 is first-provided. Thearray substrate 12 is formed with the described elements thereon and a spacer. 106 a is formed over a conductive line, for example thedata line 104, between adjacent display regions P. Thespacer 106 a is formed with, for example, a tapered shape as illustrated inFIG. 3 and is surrounded by a seal layer (not shown), defining an area for a plurality of display regions P. The liquid crystal layer LC is then formed in the display regions P by methods such as the one drop filling (ODF) method. Next, a CF substrate, for example the above mentionedCF substrate 14, is provided over thearray substrate 12. TheCF substrate 14 has a recess portion formed over a black matrix layer between adjacent light-transmitting regions L. Next, the array substrate and theCF substrate 14 are pressed toward each other under a vacuum atmosphere to thereby assembly theLCD device 10. - Within the
LCD device 10 illustrated inFIG. 1 , a plurality ofspacers FIG. 1 . - While the invention has been described by way of example and in terms of preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto. To the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements (as would be apparent to those skilled in the art). Therefore, the scope of the appended claims should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar arrangements.
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